Designer Family Rooms

Some look edgy and modern, while others seem coordinated and traditional. Whatever your design style, the family room is a place to gather together with those you love. Get more ideas and tour a designer's colorful family room.

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Casual and Masculine

Casual and Masculine

"The family room is sports central," designer Nathan Turner says of client Eric Stonestreet's Los Angeles house. A custom sectional in Calvin Fabrics' Antiquity faces an enormous flat-screen television. The Candemir ottoman from Nathan Turner, covered in Elite leather, is tough enough to handle football fans with their feet up, and an original Gustav Stickley armchair strikes a masculine note. Bubble Knit poufs, West Elm. Curtain and shade in William Yeoward's Padstow.

Victoria Pearson

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Dreamy Blues

Dreamy Blues

All the blues in this Atlanta house designed by Kristin Kong started with the vivid fabric on the family room sofa, Kravet's Venetian. A bookshelf conceals a door to the back stairs. Walls are painted in Kestrel White to contrast with the Mega Greige trim, both by Sherwin-Williams. Reagan chairs in Kravet's Marcellus and Rancho ottoman, Bernhardt.

Casual and Masculine

"The family room is sports central," designer Nathan Turner says of client Eric Stonestreet's Los Angeles house. A custom sectional in Calvin Fabrics' Antiquity faces an enormous flat-screen television. The Candemir ottoman from Nathan Turner, covered in Elite leather, is tough enough to handle football fans with their feet up, and an original Gustav Stickley armchair strikes a masculine note. Bubble Knit poufs, West Elm. Curtain and shade in William Yeoward's Padstow.

Victoria Pearson

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Dreamy Blues

All the blues in this Atlanta house designed by Kristin Kong started with the vivid fabric on the family room sofa, Kravet's Venetian. A bookshelf conceals a door to the back stairs. Walls are painted in Kestrel White to contrast with the Mega Greige trim, both by Sherwin-Williams. Reagan chairs in Kravet's Marcellus and Rancho ottoman, Bernhardt.

Julien Capmeil

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Bright and Airy

Grays

A big family room demands a big sectional, one with enough space for basset hounds Okie and Maggie to sack out. It's covered in plush Glant Island chenille, in one of dozens of shades of gray designer Marshall Watson used throughout the Naples, Florida, house. The cool palette counterbalances the bright light that pours through 12-foot-high windows.

Francesco Lagnese

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Balanced Space

"I think there's peace in balance," says designer Kay Douglass, who furnished the family room of an Atlanta house with two Charlotte chairs and ottomans, two vintage iron coffee tables found at a fair in France, two table lamps, and two vintage side tables that belonged to the owners — lacquered in Orange Spice to give them new life. Thibaut sofa, Iron and Linen Frame light fixture, and orange picture frame from South of Market. Belgian linen curtains from Lewis & Sheron Textiles.

Eric Piasecki

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All-American

In a Rhode Island house designed by Tom Scheerer, the family room's sofa pairs Clarence House blue corduroy with seat covers in Peter Dunham's Samarkand. A bold-patterned Indian rug echoes azure tiles in the kitchen, framed by faux-bois–painted walls and trim in Benjamin Moore's Linen White.

Francesco Lagnese

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Graphic Pattern

In the adjoining family room of a Greenwich, Connecticut, house, designer Lee Ann Thornton covered the walls and sectional in the same fabric, Quadrille's Persepolis: "I wanted the space to feel more hip and fun," she says. The ottoman is covered in Martyn Lawrence Bullard's Kabba Kabba. Inca carpet, Patterson Flynn Martin.

James Merrell

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Sunny and Inviting

Family room walls in a Naples, Florida, house designed by Jesse Carrier and Mara Miller are glazed yellow to make "every day feel sunny." Curtains in Alan Campbell's Potalla linen-cotton and sofas in Rogers & Goffigon's Violetta cotton velvet.

Eric Piasecki

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Neutrals

"The earthy tone of the kitchen is continued through the breakfast room into the family room — uniting them as one large space," designer Barbara Barry says of this space in a Corona del Mar, California, house. "It's more embracing, and you just don't want to leave. This core of the house works like a shadow box that opens onto a vast horizontal green garden." An enormous custom leather ottoman doubles as seating or a table for informal meals.

Victoria Pearson

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"Granny-Chic"

In a Los Angeles, California, house decorated by Schuyler Samperton, the family room's sofas and a wing chair, all from Rooms & Gardens, are upholstered in Jasper's Melaya and Kathryn M. Ireland's Woven, respectively. Ballard Designs ottoman in a Bolivian textile from L'Aviva Home. Bookcase, HD Buttercup.